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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815073303321

Autore

Obadele-Starks Ernest <1959->

Titolo

Freebooters and smugglers [[electronic resource] ] : the foreign slave trade in the United States after 1808 / / by Ernest Obadele-Starks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2007

ISBN

1-61075-164-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/1

Soggetti

Pirates - United States - History - 19th century

Slave trade - Africa - History - 19th century

Slave trade - United States - History - 19th century

Slave traders - United States - History - 19th century

Slavery - Law and legislation - United States - History - 19th century

Slavery - Southern States - History - 19th century

Smugglers - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Photographs and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "A View of Opening a Trade"; 2. "A Particular Kind of Force"; 3. "Turbulent and Bad Men"; 4. "Difficult to Repress"; 5. "A Great Frontier Movement"; 6. "No Argument Could Be Made"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<div>Ernest Obadele-Starks holds a joint appointment as an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University-College Station and Texas A&M University at Qatar. He is the author of Black Unionism in the Industrial South and has written several articles examining various political and social aspects of the African American diaspora. He is currently working on a comparative study of free black settlements in Canada, the United States, and Mexico from 1849 to 1867.</div>